I love tequila in lemonade. It’s awesome. But right now I can’t have it. I can’t have it because we are out of mixable tequila. The only tequila we have left is Patron Platinum and that is *not* getting mixed with lemonade. Mmmm. We need to open that bottle soon. Do I have any tequila fans reading? 🙂
But it’s time for bed. Shanna is sleeping in the swing. Noah is in bed. Tonight for no good reason I feel antsy. I want… something.
Ack! Frustration! No, not really. I’m ok. Just energetic at a time I shouldn’t be. 🙂
Power Exchange is going away. I know that many folks aren’t that into it, but that was the first kink place I ever went. I want to go before it closes. Would it be possible to get a group outing together?
Probably the 25th of October would be best. Can people go? Pleeeeeeeeeeease? This is going to be so sad for me. In this really weird way…
1. I had a good walk to the park and Shanna had fun in the swing.
2. I have a safe, comfortable life.
3. I have the best husband ever.
4. I have really awesome friends.
5. I had a great sandwich for lunch.
6. The Barenaked Ladies kids album makes me ridiculously happy.
7. I’m glad that being a parent has been so easy so far. It could change, but damn I’m lucky so far.
8. I loved the snuggle fest Noah, Shanna, and I had in bed this morning.
9. I have a house full of awesome books. I so win.
10. That it’s ok for me to be lazy.
Do you know how many of things are cause of Noah? Yeah, almost all of them. I’m a lucky girl.
As a true Californian (9th generation you know) her first food needed to be avocado. And it was:
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| From Shanna |
More if you click through, of course. 🙂
List making for the sake of list making. 🙂
I want to:
make a Christmas list so I can use it as evidence that Noah has to make one.
talk to mitrian/tshuma/bk2w about gardening. (hey… maybe winter break?)
clean my whole house top to bottom, including getting the cobwebs off of the outside.
have more sex. [hey! I can do that now!!….] [ok, done]
clean and fill the hot tub.
go wine tasting.
figure out a steady time for the gym.
schedule a massage or three.
go on a hike with friends.
finish the write up for the Freak Breeders outing and put it out.
research for the New Zealand trip!
make Shanna’s Halloween costume.
Not in any particular order or time frame. 🙂
This made me cry. It’s really sad thinking about how much women destroy ourselves.
Are you tired of getting credit card offers? Go here: www.optoutprescreen.com and you can stop them! It took about 3 minutes.
Unfortunately, that’s the easy one. It’s a bit more complicated to get rid of the rest of your junk mail but this site: http://www.obviously.com/junkmail/ tells you how to do it. I’m starting the process.
It’s pretty disgusting how much paper is wasted through junk mail. Don’t you wish that you could help reduce it? 🙂
I’m not posting much about politics, but I want to let ya’ll know that I am enjoying the stuff you are posting. I’m reading it all. I’m also reading various other sources, my personal favorite is realclearpolitics.com which reveals my bias I’m sure.
I/we have donated to Obama more than once. I/we have donated to No on 8 more than once. (Oh by the way honey… I donated again today. 🙂 I think these are both pretty big deals.
My politics have slid in the past year or so from where they used to be. I used to be a rather staunch Libertarian. At this point…I’m less of one. I’m hyper-aware of the fact that I am a very privileged person and I didn’t exactly get here through my own hard work. *cough* Sure, I have done some hard work in my lifetime… but I have not earned my present level of comfort. I kind of wonder if I ever really earned all that I felt I earned. How much of it was given to me? I’m still not real gung-ho on welfare programs, but I do feel that as someone with wealth it is my responsibility to help support the things I want in existence. I want marriage equality for all because why in the hell should I be treated special? I just happened to find a guy I wanted to marry. It didn’t have to be a guy. I want a president I feel some respect for.
I want to encourage my friends who can to put their money where their mouth is. I feel like this election may well be one of the most important ones of our lifetime. I want to know that I did something to help.
I’m not an early adapter. I don’t trust all these “advancements” until other people suffer through the bugs. That said, I am lazy. I looked around for a better cash back rate on a credit card and was lead to the wonders of American Express. This card is some serious shit. Right now I am suffering through the hassle of setting it up to automatically pay all of my monthly bills for me. How cool is that? I won’t have to do it anymore! w00t! And they will give me 1.5% of that money back. Seems pretty neato to me given that I have to pay the bills anyway. (No, there is not an annual fee–I checked.) This is a serious pain in the ass.
And my phone is dying. It was fully charged yesterday afternoon. I haven’t used it and it is aready dead. Stupid phone. I’m not sure what I want to replace it with.
bitch.moan.complain. 🙂
I realized tonight the difference between someone who is my friend and someone who is an acquaintance. I can tell my friends when I am mad at them.
I’m thinking that what I should do is start up a freak breeders play group that meets up every so often. That’s what I should do! I can advertise on the local freak lists and groups and such. It’ll be awesome! Well, if anyone decides to come. 🙂 I’ll hopefully get to hang with some of the freaky sorts I know already and meet new ones! Yay!
I’m thinking a trip to the zoo. That could be a neat fairly neutral first trip. I don’t know much about local zoos. Is the San Francisco Zoo or the Oakland Zoo noticeably better? I propose November 15th because that is far enough out to make it on to calendars and before the holidays. (And uhm, it’s after my Comp Exam. 🙂 Given the schedules of young’uns I think 10am is probably a reasonable starting time but I’m open to feedback. This isn’t the official announcement, I’m giving my friends a chance to suggest a different date, time, or activity before I solicit the larger freak community.
For ya’lls general information I am defining freak as: kinky, poly, pagan, burner, goth, punk, trans, queer, bisexual, industrial, hippy, or if you just feel like you don’t quite fit in at the local mommy group. You can be any of the above or none of the above. If you think you qualify as a freak, come on down.
Any feedback before I do a larger scale announcement?
And if you click through you can see close ups. 🙂
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| From Random |
Is fuzzy cause Shanna was squirming in my other arm.
Last night was the kind of night that prompts me to tell people, “If you aren’t 150% sure you want children–don’t have them.” Really it was all my fault. I was out of the house from 10 am till 6:30 pm and Shanna was only able to steal a couple of 20 minute cat naps. Whoops. As a result she had a terrible time sleeping all night. Major booby-monsterage. She woke up freaked out and needed to nurse every hour or two. At about 2:30 she woke up and just couldn’t seem to go to sleep again. We were up until 4:30. She was fussing and whining and crying and kicking me and generally expressing massive displeasure in my direction. Fair enough. All told she probably got ~9 hours of sleep last night but it was seriously broken sleep. She’s already napping on my lap.
At about 4am we ended up crying together for a while out of frustration. It was rather cathartic.
And it’s worth pointing out that after last night, by far our hardest night to date, that I’m still so happy to be a mom that I ache with joy. I love her so much.
The cutest baby ever fell asleep on the guest bed (of course, while nursing) about twenty minutes before we need to leave to have lunch with someone. Now tell me, how can I wake up a baby this cute:
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I have six untouched books left. I am in progress on four three books. Of the four three I am reading, one Noah is reading to me, two are one is more than half gone (and they are short), and one I am slowly savoring because it’s neat. The two one that are is almost done I can easily finish in a few hours of reading. Of the six remaining, three are plays and the remaining three novels are fairly short. I could probably finish the entirety of my reading in about eight solid days of reading. It will only take me that long due to Shanna interruptions. I have four weeks and three days.
I am trying to maintain a reasonable awareness of politics seeing as I will be voting before the Comp Exam. It feels irritating and distracting though.
Spanish is plugging along. I would feel worse about my grasp of things only some of the people in the higher numbered course aren’t doing much better. I have a test in seven days. I have an oral presentation of some kind (it’s not announced yet) in three weeks.
The house has gone to crap and that’s just how it’s going to be for a month or so. I don’t have the bandwidth.
I’m trying to continue being a good friend. It’s kind of hard. I don’t have much extra energy.
I’m probably not doing enough for Noah. I’m trying though.
Shanna is still my primary focus. I’m telling you, being a stay at home parent is a full time job. This is pretty hard. Especially given all the other things pulling at me. Things will let up tremendously after the Comp Exam and the election. I’m looking forward to being able to coast for a while.
Although… after the Comp Exam comes the holidays. I’m still not entirely sure what all is happening there.
Edited to reflect today’s reading.
I would love to see a high school debate team captain school Obama and McCain.
“That’s off-topic.”
“Irrelevant”
“Repetitive”
“JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION!”
It would be great.
The race is on . . . . . . this is funny. YOU fill in the blanks about ME … even if you don’t have any idea … and send it back to ME (via reply). But first post a blank one out to all your friends so they can return the favor to you.
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So far I liked The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The English Patient; Midnight’s Children and Kim are both really interesting so far. Pretty much everything else has been obnoxious. I’m happy about four good ones. 🙂
I have eight books left that are not in progress. I have four weeks and four days left. Oof. Best get to hurrying!
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